The Paris Psalter: Psalm 82

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Hwylc is þe gelic, ece drihten?
Ne swiga ðu, ne þe sylfne bewere.
Forþon þine feond fæcne forwurdan,
þa ðe fæste ær feodan, drihten,

5

and heora heafod wið þe hofan swiðe.
Hi on ðinum folce him facengeswipere
syredan and feredan, and to swice hogedon,
and ehtunga ealle hæfdon,
hu hi þine halgan her yfeladan.

10

Cwædan cuðlice: "Wutun cuman ealle
and hi towyrpan geond werþeoda,
þæt ne sy gemyndig manna ænig,
hu Israhela naman ænig nemne."
Forþon hi an geþeaht ealle ymbsætan,

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and gewitnesse wið þe wise gesettan.
Selegesceotu synd onsægd in Idumea
and Ismæhelita, eac synt Moabes,
Ammon and Ammalech, Agareni,
swylce Gebal and grame manige

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fremde þeoda mid eardiendum folce on Tyrum.
Cwom samod mid ðam swylce Assur;
ealle on wegum æghwær syndon
on leodstefnum Loðes bearnum.
Do him nu swa ðu dydest dagum Madiane

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and Sisare, swylce Iabin;
ealle þa namon ændor wylle
and Cisone clæne hlimme;
wurdan þa earme eorþan to meohxe.
Sete heora ealdormenn swa ðu Oreb dydest,

30

Zeb and Zebee and Salmanaa,
and heora ealdrum eallum swylce;
ealle þa on an ær gecwædon,
þæt hi halignesse godes her gesettan.
Sete hi nu, min god, samod anlice

35

swa se wægnes hweol oþþe windes healm,
and swa færincga fyr wudu byrneð,
oððe swa lig freteð lungre morhæð,
Swa þu hi on yrre ehtest and drefest,
þæt hi on hrernesse hraþe forweorðað.

40

Gedo þæt hiora ansyn awa sceamige,
þonne hi naman þinne neode seceað.
Ealle beoð georette, eac gescende,
and on weoruldlife weorþað gedrefde,
þonne hi naman þinne neode seceað.

45

þu ana eart ofer ealle heah
eorðbuende, ece drihten.